African Game Trails - Theodore Roosevelt

Hard to find Hardcover in a Very good condition.

African Game Trails - Theodore Roosevelt

This edition (text only) reproduced as a facsimile of the 1910 (original) English edition by Galago in October 1986.

Hardcover: ISBN 0947020187

Galago October 1986

Excellent condition and clean with Dustjacket, now protected with a new Cellophane Sleeve.

• Fascinated by the call of the wild and much influenced by Frederick Courtney Selous, acknowledged as the African hunter of his day, Theodore Roosevelt finally arranged to take a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. The collection of birds and mammals made by the Roosevelt's during this expedition, was presented to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and in Washington. This account of the African veld and of African hunting is written by a man with the experienced eye of a hunter, but one nevertheless, that had caught its first and what was to prove its only glimpse of Africa. The detail, perhaps as a consequence, comes over in a refreshing light and with a charm that is very different to other similar guides.

• "In 1908 Teddy took a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. His account of this adventure is as remarkably fresh today as it was when these adventures on the veldt were first published. Roosevelt describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met (including such famous hunters as Cunninghame and Selous), and flora and fauna he collected in the name of science. Long out of print, this classic is one of the preeminent examples of Africana, and belongs on every collector's shelf." 

  " One of the most famous of all the big game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continuously in print until the 1930's. In British East Africa, Roosevelt hunted lion and plains game on the Kapiti Plains, while in the Bondoni hill country he collected rhino and giraffe. On Juja Farm, his son Kermit faced leopard, while Teddy bagged rhino and hippo. On the Kamiti River buffalo were taken, Near the Sotik, additional rhino and lion were hunted with elephant collected near Mt Kenia. On the Guaso Nyiro giraffe and a variety of plains game were shot. Further adventures included hunting elephant near Lake Nyanza, rhino and plains game in the Lado, and eland on the Nile. Roosevelt's total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era."  [Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999, page 238:]

  Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, travelling on this expedition after his term as President ended.